365 Message Center Show #365MCS

In this week's short and snappy episode, Copilot Studio gets an increase in the number of files an agent can use in SharePoint and OneDrive. Office Transcriptions can be left to run all day and still not use up your quota of minutes. Lastly, admins should check that they have enabled a setting in Chromium browsers to continue to provide offline capabilities in OneDrive. 0:00 Welcome 5:35 Microsoft Copilot Studio - Use up to 1,000 files per agent for SharePoint and OneDrive uploads - MC1150623 11:36 Teams Admin Center: Control External Access by Domain for Specific Users and Groups - MC1150123 14:45 Office Transcription Quota Increase for Copilot-Licensed Users - MC1150669 19:17 Action Required – Configure Browser Policy to Preserve OneDrive and SharePoint Web Performance and Offline Capability - MC1150662

Learn how Microsoft will make it easier for people to get up and running with their current settings when they shift to New Outlook. Copilot Pages and Copilot generated images will be found in a new 'Library' launched from the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. Lastly, Teams chats and group chats get a Notes tab. But it's not what you think. - Microsoft Outlook: Set up classic Outlook accounts and settings in new Outlook for Windows automatically - Rewrite with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat coming soon to Edge for Business users - Manage agent permissions directly in Microsoft Admin Center (MAC) - Library experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn - Microsoft Teams: AI workflows powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot - Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Notes in Chats

Get your SharePoint News read to you in an audio overview. Output response to your Copilot Researcher results in an old favourite format. And Engage Community Announcements get smarter at delivering to your most frequently used channels. - Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Researcher agent output controls - Microsoft Teams: Choose to hide inactive channels - Windows Backup for Organizations is now available - Microsoft Viva Engage: Smarter delivery of Community Announcement notifications - (Updated) AI actions coming to SharePoint document libraries - Microsoft Viva: AI-generated audio briefings for SharePoint news in Viva Connections Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

This episode is packed with great updates. Loop pages can now be added to Teams channels as a tab. This is a simpler way to use Loop as a team without creating a whole workspace. Creating SharePoint workflows will now follow the same experience as when you create them in Teams. And soon you will be able to create SharePoint sections on pages with help from Copilot. What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss? – Outlook Mobile : Copilot Chat overlay coming to iOS and Android - Restrict new file creation in Office desktop apps to Cloud Locations - Collaborate with Microsoft Loop Pages in Teams Channels - Build SharePoint automations with Workflows—now aligned with the Teams experience - Microsoft Teams: New organizer controls for in-meeting management - SharePoint Pages: Sections with AI - Microsoft Teams Copilot without transcription becomes default for meetings - conversation history now persists Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

React to a message and trigger a workflow. That might be fun if you want to dedicate a certain emoji for 'volunteering' for a task. In other news, some Gen-AI features of the M365 Copilot app Create module will be made available to unlicensed users. What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss? – Emoji Reactions Workflows in Microsoft Teams - [Copilot Extensibility] Admins can manage ownerless Copilot agents with new lifecycle controls - Meeting Search in MS Teams Desktop - Gen AI capabilities in the Create module of Microsoft 365 Copilot app coming to all Copilot Chat users - Microsoft Teams: Private channels increased limits and transition to group compliance - Streamlined file preview experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iOS Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

GPT-5 is a significant arrival for M365 Copilot. So are email templates in new Outlook. We also want to prepare you for come changes to scheduling events and meetings. What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss? – Outlook: Create and save email templates in the new Outlook for Windows – Remove toggle for Calendar in Teams – Microsoft 365 Copilot | View recent activity in Word with Dynamic Document Snapshot – SharePoint Agent: New Agent Link WebPart – GPT-5—OpenAI’s latest generative-AI system—is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot – New Event Scheduling User Experience for Outlook and Teams - MC1129717 Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

The M365 Copilot Chat box is adding a tools button to make it easier to add and use a range of tools from Chat. Copilot-summarized emails are coming to Outlook for people without an M365 Copilot license. And soon orgs using Viva Amplify will be able to send any SharePoint news posts from their sites via Amplify channels — no need to create the content from an Amplify campaign team. What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss? – Support for different modes for desks – Viva Amplify: Distribute SharePoint news posts across channels – New Tools feature coming to the Microsoft Copilot Chat prompt box – Microsoft Outlook: Copilot chat now available to summarize emails for more users – Microsoft 365 Copilot: Enhanced presentation creation quality – Microsoft Outlook for Windows: Add attachments while offline Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

M365 Copilot in PowerPoint will be able to access the SharePoint Org Assets Library. When you write prompts to create a slide deck, you set Copilot to use the library for images in your slides. But it is going to take some work to add metadata to the images so it can be used by Copilot. Also, Outlook Newsletters are coming soon to New Outlook. This week we learn how to control who can create them and read them. What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss? – Updates to SharePoint video sharing – New Outlook for Windows and Web: Outlook Newsletters – General Availability begins for Targeted Release – Microsoft Viva – New support for branded themes and typography in Viva Amplify – Microsoft 365 Copilot | PowerPoint now supports enterprise image libraries via SharePoint OAL or Templafy – Introducing the New Workflows Experience in Microsoft Teams Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

M365 Copilot Chat will use new file types like MP4s, CAD, and ZIP, to ground it's responses. We wonder how it will find discussions in videos without first creating a transcript for every video. Teams meetings will show a new join experience that helps you manage when you have accepted or responded tentatively to multiple meetings. And Copilot will make a little more available to unlicensed M365 Copilot users, so they can get a taste of the value — depedending capacity consumed by licensed customers. What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss? - Microsoft 365 Copilot | Chat now supports new file types in search grounding - Microsoft Teams: Meeting Join Bar - Updates to custom scripting in sites and Classic Publishing site creation - Microsoft OneDrive for Business | Updated order of Shortcut and Sync commands - Standard and Priority access to Copilot capabilities - Microsoft Copilot in Teams: Visual Insight for intelligent recap Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

The Researcher agent is coming to Microsoft Word for M365 Copilot licensed users. This feels like the right place for it to be used, bringing research prompt outputs into a highly capable documentation app. If you are a subject matter expert and you want to be recognised as one in a Viva Engage community, now you will be able to request to be one. This and more on this week's episode. - Researcher is available in Word for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users - Self-nomination as a community expert in Viva Engage communities - Improved backup and restore experience for Microsoft Authenticator on iOS - Microsoft 365 Copilot | Viva Engage discussion posts added to grounding sources - Pin AppBar from Hamburger context menu - Outlook: Report junk + block or unsubscribe in one same action Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

Microsoft 365 Search get's a Copilot response when you use natural language to search for something. Microsoft Teams notifications become more compact. Viva Engage will now support segmentation so communities can be separate within the same tenant. What else will Daniel and Darrell discuss this week? - Microsoft 365 Copilot Search General Availability - Microsoft Teams: Compact notification size for users - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation - Microsoft Viva Engage: Introducing segmentation for personalized experiences (preview) - Expanded Copilot in Viva Engage updates - Dialogs/Task Module Support Now Generally Available in Microsoft Copilot Agents Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

This week the 365 Message Center Show brings some lively discussion about timers in Teams meetings and anyone being able to start them to remind the speaker to finish up. We will also, once again, be able to save chats and channel posts, bookmarking them to get back to later. Also, SharePoint Copilot Agents will be accessible in M365 Copilot Chat to continue the conversation. - Microsoft Teams: Countdown timer for Teams Meetings - Researcher in Copilot Notebooks - Microsoft Teams: Users can save chats and channel messages for later - Microsoft Teams: Facilitator agent notes in chats (Preview) - Microsoft Copilot: Access SharePoint agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app - Meeting Search in MS Teams Desktop Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

This week on the Microsoft 365 Message Center... - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Extending Copilot Chat to Microsoft 365 apps - Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat: Now Easily Accessible from the Teams Chat List - Researcher on M365 Copilot Prompt Box - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Visual Creator Agent will no longer be pre-installed - Microsoft Teams: Presenters can promote attendees to the green room - Microsoft SharePoint: Header and Footer enhancements Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

Pull together a quick meeting invite from an email thread with Copilot from your mobile. Then start preparing for your next meeting using Copilot in Outlook mobile. All this mobile, on-the-go meeting organising and prep must mean we now barely have time to organise and prepare. It's a good thing Copilot can help. - Microsoft Viva Goals: New Data export feature - Create a meeting from an email thread with Copilot - (Updated) Prepare for your on-the-go meeting with Copilot - Microsoft Viva Insights: New prompt categories in the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Admins can upload custom dictionaries for Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts - Text Prediction turned off by default in Outlook Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

We have often wanted to reply to a reply in Teams channel conversations. Wish granted! But calling them threads when posts are already threaded? And what does following a thread mean? Also, Copilot Agents will be called into a call or meeting and attendees will be able to interact with them. This and more, for sure. - Meeting Details Experience for Windows 10 will be removed in OneNote - Microsoft 365: Retiring and modernizing the Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel for Windows desktop apps - Microsoft Teams: Interactive agents for meetings and calls - Microsoft Lists: Mobile apps for iOS and Android will retire - Microsoft Teams: Inclusive meeting enhancements for sign language users - Microsoft Teams: New threaded conversation layout option for channels Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

Listen to your meeting as an audio overview. Summarise email attachments before opening them to read. In the right hands, these will be useful tools. But how will you know the summaries pick up all the important details? Listen or watch this episode to learn more about these Message Center messages. - Microsoft Edge for Business: New PDF viewer powered by Adobe engine now available for testing in Edge Beta - Power Automate - Fix save errors in your cloud or agent flow with Copilot - Teams Meeting Audio Overview - SharePoint Alerts retirement - Microsoft Outlook: Summarize email attachments with Copilot - Microsoft 365 admin center: Onboard SharePoint agents as a Pay-as-you-go scenario Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

Listen to your meeting as an audio overview. Summarise email attachments before opening them to read. In the right hands, these will be useful tools. But how will you know the summaries pick up all the important details? Listen or watch this episode to learn more about these Message Center messages. - Microsoft Edge for Business: New PDF viewer powered by Adobe engine now available for testing in Edge Beta - Power Automate - Fix save errors in your cloud or agent flow with Copilot - Teams Meeting Audio Overview - SharePoint Alerts retirement - Microsoft Outlook: Summarize email attachments with Copilot - Microsoft 365 admin center: Onboard SharePoint agents as a Pay-as-you-go scenario Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

This episode is giving notes of templates and orange peel. Yes, this episode has three messages that involve templates in three different M365 experiences. SharePoint page templates page gets revamped. PowerPoint offers Copilot as a slide deck template. Teams will let you create your own meeting templates. Thanks for joining us. Let us know what your picks were for the week. - Microsoft Project for the web and Project in Teams will retire and redirect to Planner for the web and Planner in Teams - Microsoft Edge: New location for Edge profile in the toolbar - Microsoft Teams: Send messages to attendees in the meeting lobby with Lobby chat - Modern SharePoint: New Template gallery and 50+ out-of-the-box page templates - Microsoft Teams Premium: New personal meeting templates - Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows: Create a presentation with Microsoft Copilot from the PowerPoint Backstage view Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

If you haven't heard by now, Copilot agents are going to be a big thing in Microsoft 365. Without the right admin tools, they are the next service to sprawl and get out of control. The Admin Center will soon have a new page and reports to show what agents are being used, where, and who added them. Also, with Classic / New switch for Outlook will let you choose to open in Classic, while keeping New open. - Dynamics and Business Apps Wave 1 commentary - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Image Generation Usage Limit for Users without a Copilot License - Microsoft 365 admin center: Copilot extensibility - Agents and connectors - Microsoft Outlook: Updated behavior for switching back from new Outlook to classic Outlook for Windows - Live captions copying disabled for Teams meetings Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn

Oooh. So that's why Microsoft renamed Microsoft 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot. It was the app all along. Wave 2 announcements reveal that the home page, the starting point for using Microsoft 365 on the web is going all in with Copilot-centric experiences. Not only Chat, but also Create, a new Search experience, Notebooks for collecting and focusing chat outcomes, and much much more. - Microsoft SharePoint Online eSignature for Microsoft Word - Expanding reference capabilities with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word - Out-of-the-box Agents in Microsoft 365 - View your organization's prompts in the redesigned Copilot Prompt Gallery app soon - Microsoft Dataverse – Add Dataverse as enterprise knowledge in Copilot Studio - Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Updates for licensed Microsoft 365 Copilot users (Wave 2 Spring release) Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. Check out Darrell & Daniel's own YouTube channels at: Darrell - https://youtube.com/modernworkmentor Daniel - https://youtube.com/DanielGlenn